GeoWall.Org is a meeting place
of people in the GeoWall Consortium (that we don't know how to join,
though we'd like to).

The EVL's AGAVE
page includes lots of great directions and links, including Jason
Leigh's
tutorial on how to use Blitz3d
on a GeoWall.

Jason provides a very interesting demo called TerrainFly, a
simple, but very cool, flight simulator over Mars. But it is more
generalizable - you can make it a flight simulator over any planet with
a height/bump map (black is low, white is high) and a color map. And
you can change the music too. Here are some sources of such maps:

Pierre Auger Project An international facility in
development in Argentina, this project will use 1600 detectors spread
over an area the size of Rhode Island to find elusive, extremely
high-energy cosmic rays.

The first few slides of this PowerPoint
Presentation by Johanner Blumer shows the layout of the 1600 detectors, the location
of the project in Argentina, and so on. If viewing this on Windows, use Page Up and Page Down to navigate.

VERITAS A large
collaborative effort to find high energy gamma rays, to help figure out where they come from.

Hands-on Cosmology. "A small set
of hands-on exhibits pieces (6 text panels, a few hands-on pieces, and
a computer program that I'd really like to develop more) addressing the
evidence for dark from the rotation curves of spiral galaxies." -- its author

Explaining Cherenkov Radiation
Three nice and simple applets showing wave patterns and shockwaves produced by
differences in light and particle speed.

The 22 Nov 2003 issue of the weekly mag New Scientist has a 4-page
pullout 'map of the universe' (a rather sparse map, but cool
anyway). The map is based on the recent paper (Oct 03) "A map of the
universe", by Richard Gott, Mario Juric, et al. They detail their work
herE; you
can find postscript and gif files with the map. You'll also find a
link to the
50-page paper on arxiv, which has technical details, but
is mostly a guided tour of the map in accessible language.

1995
Report of the National Research Council. It is a good, albeit
dated, reference for defining cosmology and motivating its study.

Sound of the Big Bang...
"The Big Bang sounded more like a deep hum than a bang, according to
an analysis of the radiation left over from the cataclysm. Physicist
John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle has created
audio files of the event ..."

the Future of Learning
Group at the MIT Media Lab
Projects from the Future of Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab that explore
the
creation of "tools to think with" to help bring about change in real- world
settings, such as schools, museums, and under-served communities.

Center for Innovative Learning Technologies. CILT was founded to stimulate
the development and study of important, technology-enabled solutions for K-14
science, mathematics, engineering, and technology learning. CILT has generated
many resources including tools, publications, events, and NetCourses.

Many people have seen the movie "Powers of 10". This was based on a
1957 book called "COSMIC VIEW: The Universe in 40 Jumps" by Kees
Boeke. But you dont have to go to a library to find it, since there
are at least two copies of it on the web in all its gory, at vendian.org and
CalTech.

Huge VRML models of
Earth and Mars. Can fly around them on a browser in Windows - very
cool. The earth one has signposts for place labels, though several
could use updating (there are pre-1980 place names for Zimbabwean
towns, for example).